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STANCH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does stanch mean?
• STANCH (verb)
The verb STANCH has 1 sense:
1. stop the flow of a liquid
Familiarity information: STANCH used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they stanch ... he / she / it stanches
Past simple: stanched
Past participle: stanched
-ing form: stanching
... he / she / it stanches Past simple: stanched
Past participle: stanched
-ing form: stanching
Sense 1
Meaning:
Stop the flow of a liquid
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
Context example:
stem the tide
Hypernyms (to "stanch" is one way to...):
check (arrest the motion (of something) abruptly)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Context examples
“It is nought,” answered his squire, stanching the blood which dripped from a sword-cut across his forehead.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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